Arts, Culture and Media Network (ACUMEN) is an initiative that uses scalable approaches that can be replicated across Africa to improve networking and collaboration between creatives and professionals in the Arts, Culture and Media space to promote cultural learning, cultural preservation, and use same as medium to address social challenges in our communities.

The project objective is to use networking and collaboration to preserve cultural history and diversity and improve cultural learning through the Creative Arts sector and the Media industry.

As an example, Nigeria is home to 371 ethnic groups, speaking over 500 languages with a variety of customs, artistic expressions, and traditions, supporting its huge cultural diversity. However, only three major ethnic groups are officially recognized at national fora which are Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba. Little is known about other cultures and there is an urgent need to amplify the significance and richness of the other cultures through structured collaboration and positive actions among players within the Arts, Culture, and Media space.

Arts and Culture players will play significant roles in promoting practices that will continue to discover and amplify the diverse cultures in our society and preserve them from extinction. They will advocate and build strong systems and recognized Arts and Culture platforms, bodies and associations that can be used as formal focal structures for engaging and influencing policymakers and decision-makers.

The Media will play significant roles in making appropriate public communication regarding the best practices that the ACUMEN network will be facilitating. The Media will also be actively involved in helping to amplify the voices of the various cultures that need support and preservation.

In 2025, we’ll start ACUMEN summit with stakeholders to address the culture-related gaps and start to build the appropriate structures that can help achieve the expected and desired outcomes.

More to come as ACUMEN summit unfolds.

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